Guide to Get the Best Performace from the GMA 500

[simplygades]

There is still some acceleration, but no screen cube...

Now, I need to check if the flash replacement works in kde, or do I really need gnome-mplayer. Seems like you guys have been busy while I was away...

Looks like I've missed something here...Has there been proposed another method than gnome-mplayer for flash playback? Do you mean gnash? (It claims to support vaapi, but I couldn't make it work)

[jarodrig]

Anybody has tried PixieLive? works very well


http://pixielive.org/dotclear/index.php?

http://www.nanoant.com/linux/compili...x-distribution

[yvesdm3000]

Seems like you guys have been busy while I was away...

It is still a workaround because there is a crash in ExaCompositePicture. I think this was found by someone from Knoppix. The setting just disables EXA acceleration for this function. I'm putting this on my todo list, but it's all way a the bottom since there is a nice good working workaround for now.
Might fix this pretty soon though, depends on how easy it is to fix (did not have time yet to even look at it except adding the workaround to xorg.conf)

First one i'll tackle in a couple of weeks is Xv (Actually finish port to ExaMixed).

-Yves

[lucazade]

First one i'll tackle in a couple of weeks is Xv (Actually finish port to ExaMixed).

This is a good news, i think fixed Xv we'd have a full featured driver like was in Karmic.

I've tried our drivers on Maverick it worked well with xserver 1.8.2 (alpha3) but now it is broken with xserver 1.8.99. Fixing this should assure us a future with Maverick.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=1733

[jarodrig]

hi everyone. i do a xorg.conf mix with the previous gentoo distribution that i said before and the xorg.conf cofigured by default. I notice my netbook works better than with karmic, i have compiz activated.

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "screen1"
	Device "psb"
	DefaultColorDepth 24
	#    Monitor "monitor1"
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth 16
		Modes "1366x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth 24
		Modes "1366x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier "layout1"
	Screen "screen1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"psb"
	Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"
	Option "DRI" "on"
	Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
	Option "IgnoreACPI" "yes"
	Driver	"psb"
	Option "ExaNoComposite" "true"
EndSection

Try this configuration, i hope that can help with this fu*** videocard.

[lucazade]

hi everyone. i do a xorg.conf mix with the previous gentoo distribution that i said before and the xorg.conf cofigured by default. I notice my netbook works better than with karmic, i have compiz activated.

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "screen1"
	Device "psb"
	DefaultColorDepth 24
	#    Monitor "monitor1"
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth 16
		Modes "1366x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth 24
		Modes "1366x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier "layout1"
	Screen "screen1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"psb"
	Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"
	Option "DRI" "on"
	Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
	Option "IgnoreACPI" "yes"
	Driver	"psb"
	Option "ExaNoComposite" "true"
EndSection

Try this configuration, i hope that can help with this fu*** videocard.

Thank for posting but unfortunately it doesn't add anything good to the sauce (at least at a first shot)

You can look for xorg log at /var/log/Xorg.0.log

These are active by default:
Option "DRI" "on"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "IgnoreACPI" "yes"

The following is not supported by PSB (only EXA)
Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"

The following sections are generated by default so not strictly necessary:
Section "Screen"
Section "Module"
Section "ServerLayout"

Correct me if wrong, it's quite late!

[mikewhatever]

Hi,

Wondering if this driver will be officially integrated into the standard Lucid (or Maverick) repos anytime soon.

Anyone know?

And thanks to Lucazade for all your hard work. My ASUS 1201HA is running fine.

No, not likely, at least not until Intel decides to support its driver.

[jarodrig]

Thank for posting but unfortunately it doesn't add anything good to the sauce (at least at a first shot)

You can look for xorg log at /var/log/Xorg.0.log

These are active by default:
Option "DRI" "on"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "IgnoreACPI" "yes"

The following is not supported by PSB (only EXA)
Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"

The following sections are generated by default so not strictly necessary:
Section "Screen"
Section "Module"
Section "ServerLayout"

Correct me if wrong, it's quite late!

The only thing that i can see is my computer runs quite better with "my" xorg instead of default xorg.

The option of accelmethod is a little bit complex, i try to explain that. I have nokia booklet and when i install karmic version and your drivers, i need to add this line "Option "AccelMethod" "UXA"" to make the sound working, so I think this option is used by other modules. I explained that in some post before.

Nevertheless, you are doing a great job. Thx a lot.

[pumex1990]

Hi guys,

is it safe to make an upgrade to linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic and upgrade psb-kernel-source right now? I don't really have time to work out problems right now, so if it may damage something I can wait

[jbernardo]

Hi guys,

is it safe to make an upgrade to linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic and upgrade psb-kernel-source right now? I don't really have time to work out problems right now, so if it may damage something I can wait

If you have already updated psb-kernel-source in lucid, the kernel upgrade should go without problems.
If it won't start in graphic mode, do the usual - boot in recovery mode, purge psb-kernel-source, and reinstall it.